BENJAMIN BRITTEN Centenary Celebration - Hal Leonard

Nocturne, Op. 60
8 songs; composed 1958; originally for tenor, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra; texts by Shelley, Tennyson, Coleridge,
Middleton, Wordsworth, Owen, Keats, Shakespeare
48008954 Tenor and Piano Reduction $31.95
On This Island, Op. 11
5 songs; composed 1937; texts by W.H. Auden; Contents: Let the florid music praise ● Now the leaves are falling fast ● Seascape ●
Nocturne ● As it is, plenty
48008964 High Voice and Piano $27.25
Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8
3 songs plus prologue and epilogue; composed 1936; originally a symphonic cycle for high voice and orchestra; texts by W.H. Auden,
Thomas Ravenscroft, and anonymous; Contents: Prologue ● Rats away! ● Messalina ● Dance of Death ● Epilogue and Funeral
March
48008966 High Voice and Piano Reduction $31.00
Sechs Hölderlin Fragmente, Op. 61
6 songs; composed 1958; texts (in German) by Friedrich Hölderlin; Contents: Menschenbeifall ● Die Heimat ● Sokrates und
Alcibiades ● Die Jugend ● Hälfte des Lebens ● Die Linien des Lebens
48008995 High Voice and Piano $32.95
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22
7 songs; composed 1940; texts (in Italian) by Michelangeo Buonarroti; Contents: Sonetto XVI ● Sonetto XXXI ● Sonetto XXX ●
Sonetto LV ● Sonetto XXXVIII ● Sonetto XXXII ● Sonetto XXIV
48008998 Tenor and Piano $27.95
Winter Words, Op. 52
8 songs; composed 1953; texts by Thomas Hardy (two additional songs were composed and added as an appendix posthumously);
Contents: At Day-close in November ● Midnight on the Great Western ● Wagtail and Baby ● The Little Old Table ● The
Choirmaster’s Burial ● Proud Songsters ● At the Railway Station, Upway ● Before Life and After; two cut songs from the cycle:
If’it’s ever spring again ● The Children and Sir Nameless
48009033 High Voice and Piano $29.95
REALIZATIONS FOR SOLO VOICE AND PIANO
Selections from The Beggar’s Opera
Ballad opera by John Gay; realization by Britten 1947-48
Contents: ’Tis woman that seduces all mankind (tenor) ● If love the virgin’s heart invade (mezzo-soprano) ● Virgins are like the fair
flower (mezzo-soprano) ● I, like a ship in storms, was tossed (mezzo-soprano) ● A fox may steal your hens, Sir (duet, mezzosoprano/bass)
● The miser thus a shilling sees (duet, mezzo-soprano/tenor) ● If the heart of a man is depressed with cares (tenor) ●
Man may escape from rope and gun (tenor) ● Thus when a good housewife sees a rat/How cruel are the traytors (soprano) ● Why how
now, Madam Flirt! (duet, soprano/mezzo-soprano) ● When young at the bar/Ungrateful Macheath! (soprano) ● Thus gamesters united
in friendship (baritone) ● I’m like a skiff on the ocean tossed (soprano) ● O cruel, cruel case! (tenor)
48019420 13 Solo Airs for Various Voice Types and 3 Duets $14.95
The Purcell Collection
realizations by Britten, composed over many years, including selections from Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen; with extensive
introductory notes; for complete contents search at www.halleonard.com
48019095 High Voice, 50 selections $27.95
48019096 Medium/Low Voice, 45 selections $27.95
Realizations for Solo Voice and Piano, continued
Purcell: 12 Selected Songs
realizations by Britten; Contents: Fairest Isle ● Hark the ech’ing air ● How blest are shepherds ● I attempt from love’s sickness to fly
● I’ll sail upon the Dog-star ● If music be the food of love ● Man is for the woman made ● Music for a while ● On the brow of
Richmond Hill ● There’s not a swain of the plain ● Turn then thine eyes ● We sing to him.
48019965 High Voice, with CD of accompaniments $17.99
48019966 Medium/Low Voice, with CD of accompaniments $17.99